One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.
What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?
Whenever a maker and a thinker get together, really cool stuff happens.
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various parts of your business, taking them apart, and then putting them back together again in a more powerful way. It’s about insight, invention, emotion and imagination focused on reshaping some part of the world.
Ideally, you will develop strategic response to your place in the corporate lifecycle to identify new paths of strategic renewal. You will look for new growth curves that can be started early enough to replace declining products and you will try to identify whole new curves that will take the organisation to new levels of growth as a whole.
The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.